Triumph over Patriarchy: Acts of Resistance in the Poetry of Kishwar Naheed.

The aim of this paper is to offer a few examples of perusing feminist agency through an analysis of the poems of Pakistan's pre-eminent women's activist writer, Kishwar Naheed. Some images of women'soppression and their acts of resistance in Naheed's poetry are highlighted and represented from feminist perspective while using Scott's theory of "Everyday Resistance." This paper also aims to inspect some practical and symbolictactics of resistance the female elocutionists in the selected poems of Kishwar Naheed follow to conquer the male centric authority over their subjectivity and to extend a selfappreciation identity and freedom. While speaking out against patriarchal norms, Naheed manages to challenge the negative stereotypes of women tooin the poems. In her poems, female speakers become their own liberators and they crave and strive to break the rules and shed the shackles which imprison them while rejecting all male-chauvinistic social orders. This paper follows the development and change of the female speakers and shows how they move from being passive recipients of exploitive patriarchal actions to being active agents of resistance. For this purpose, the translated version of Naheed's poetry by Rukhsana Ahmad and Mahwash Shoaib is used. The scope of existing studies of Naheed's poetry is limited to the exploration of the objectification of women in her poems, but there is gap in criticism regarding how the women in Naheed's poetry struggle to liberate themselves from the shackles of patriarchal society. This paper might help the future researchers in understanding Kishwar Naheed's poetry in a better way and also help them in exploring various dimensions of feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]